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you fold it and it turned into richard nixon. >> al, how would you describe your artwork? >> it is just what pours out of my twisted mind. >> today, matt continues to poke fun at everyone from politicians to celebrities. a stamp that you have earned your place in pop culture. >> this is our celebrity snaps. over the years, many celebrities would put their photo in holding "mad" generally when they are in the issue. it just came in from the printer, a new issue coming out. >> why look. >> stop it, stop it. this is wonderful. even if it is just for a day, it feels pretty good to be in such great company. >> look at that. >> keeping with ridiculous, i like it. the current issue of "mad" is a tribute to the world's dumbest people, 2012. get this for your nephew and nieces and get it for yourself. you also may want to pick up this special edition on store shelves quite yet. >> that's the one i want. >> stop it, stop it, stop it. >> i was so excited. nice to see you guys. thanks for being here. >> we'll be right back after these messages. one day george got an important letter.
you fold it and it turned into richard nixon. >> al, how would you describe your artwork? >> it is just what pours out of my twisted mind. >> today, matt continues to poke fun at everyone from politicians to celebrities. a stamp that you have earned your place in pop culture. >> this is our celebrity snaps. over the years, many celebrities would put their photo in holding "mad" generally when they are in the issue. it just came in from the printer, a new issue...
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nixon had always wanted to to run a campaign in a certain way and part of the story i tell us how nixon, this is how we should run the campaign and eisenhower says i'm not sure i'm comfortable with all then by the end eisenhower is taken at his word and wants to run a campaign similar to his. this is the way nixon originally envisioned the campaign, writing something i discovered in the archives as well, a letter to a fund-raiser. this campaign, some people in this campaign to be conducted on so-called high intellectual plane. there is a republican desire to do that and i think that is actually a smack in adlai stevenson's that we should let bygones be bygones and not pulling up the past mistakes of the truman administration. that after all we have two good candidates for president and in short a little nice powder pub dual and that language, there is a lot of -- i mean if you read a lot of language in 1952, there was always this undertone about homosexuality and this notion that adlai stevenson divorced and never got remarried and what's up with that? maybe he doesn't really like the g
nixon had always wanted to to run a campaign in a certain way and part of the story i tell us how nixon, this is how we should run the campaign and eisenhower says i'm not sure i'm comfortable with all then by the end eisenhower is taken at his word and wants to run a campaign similar to his. this is the way nixon originally envisioned the campaign, writing something i discovered in the archives as well, a letter to a fund-raiser. this campaign, some people in this campaign to be conducted on...
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, and there's a lot of pundits who enter the book, including joe alsop and there's pat nixon, pat nixon is a prop to dick nixon, quite literally during the speech. she is sitting there nervously, not knowing what he is going to say. she is crucial into the strategy of making her husband look normal. he talks about her being a normal suburban house wife but there's a fascinating think about pat nixon, and she is weirdly open about the fact that she doesn't really seem to like politics, and seems to even have some kind of trepidation about being with her husband. she writes a puff piece for her husband titled "a wonderful guy" and she says, dick doesn't do anything in a half hearted manner so i know we're in for a rugged time. this isn't a piece that is supposedly a celebration of his -- and she is worried about him, about what her life is going to be, and things like that. you get a real sense that with both eisenhower and pat nixon that politics transformed people in sometimes ways they don't necessarily want. another character is joe steph mccarthy, running in 1952 for re-election. his
, and there's a lot of pundits who enter the book, including joe alsop and there's pat nixon, pat nixon is a prop to dick nixon, quite literally during the speech. she is sitting there nervously, not knowing what he is going to say. she is crucial into the strategy of making her husband look normal. he talks about her being a normal suburban house wife but there's a fascinating think about pat nixon, and she is weirdly open about the fact that she doesn't really seem to like politics, and seems...
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i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than dicks nixon. he becomes the sage of saddle river, having journalists at the dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. but history is like -- >> another reason this is so much fun and so important ultimately is remember the way the founders described -- i think it was washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> where the tea cools. >> right. >> that's what history is. and it takes our friend michael beschloss as a rule, you can't write about a president in full until 25 years after they leave office. >> yeah. >> and again and again that's true. >> let me ask you this. by the way, you talk about a time that richard nixon came over to your house and you were a young man -- young woman. >> mean joe all the time. >> ex-presidents would come over. he came to talk to your dad and you just talked about how broken and how sad -- >> it might have just been the timing but he was on a seat on our porch and it was suns
i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than dicks nixon. he becomes the sage of saddle river, having journalists at the dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. but history is like -- >> another reason this is so much fun and so important ultimately is remember the way the founders described -- i think it was washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> where the tea cools....
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literally no one except nixon and me and one or two people. to technicians. >> but let me ask you about the risks here, because the chinese are a complete black box to you. all you know is that they're pretty crazy, at least seemingly so from the cultural revolution. >> absolutely. >> the revolutions they're fermenting everywhere. so this whole thing if exposed could have been a disaster. >> and therefore it was to the enormous credit of nixon that he would take those risks. >> did he worry about the risks when you would talk about them? >> you know, nixon on national issues, was enormously courageous. and what was even more remarkable is that nixon was inherently a pessimist. and even when taking these risks had a certain sense of doom. that they might not really work. but he felt this was the move that had to be made to unfreeze the situation. >> so he decides that you will go to china. >> yes. >>> when we come back, the secrets and the stealth diplomacy that made it all happen. >> they went to mao and he said who cares who invited whom. can
literally no one except nixon and me and one or two people. to technicians. >> but let me ask you about the risks here, because the chinese are a complete black box to you. all you know is that they're pretty crazy, at least seemingly so from the cultural revolution. >> absolutely. >> the revolutions they're fermenting everywhere. so this whole thing if exposed could have been a disaster. >> and therefore it was to the enormous credit of nixon that he would take those...
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and therefore, if he didn't know nixon's mind. he might do foolish things. and so, by this process, nixon came to the conclusion that he had to send me because i had worked with him intimately. hours every day. >> i'm just going to finesse all questions on china. >> pulling the trip off would also require keeping the press entirely in the dark. >> it is enigmatic as hell. >> that would be the best possible position to take. >> and let them thump around and squirrel and squeal as they will. >> even the smallest leak could shut down this ambitious plan. the two men schemed to play into reporters' queries, sending them on a series of phony diplomatic meetings. >> it was a cover for the trip. >> and you go to pakistan. >> it started out in vietnam. go to thailand. go to india, go to pakistan. excruciatingly boring program at each trip. have a lot of technical discussions, having absolutely nothing to announce and losing news every trip we were down to one. associated press reporter by the time we left india. >> by design, because you were making it so boring. >>
and therefore, if he didn't know nixon's mind. he might do foolish things. and so, by this process, nixon came to the conclusion that he had to send me because i had worked with him intimately. hours every day. >> i'm just going to finesse all questions on china. >> pulling the trip off would also require keeping the press entirely in the dark. >> it is enigmatic as hell. >> that would be the best possible position to take. >> and let them thump around and squirrel...
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. >> former senator george mcgovern who lost in a record landslide to richard nixon in the 1972 presidential election died, and hawaiian senator daniel inouye who served in the senate and the army in world war ii because as a japanese american he thought it his only way to prove his loyalty to america. >> and just in the last week, jack klugman and charles durning. you've heard of 3-d ultrasound, and now there's 3-d mammogr >> in this morning's medical alert, a new study finds fewer americans are being screened for cancer. researchers looked at screening rates for prostate, breast, colon and cervical cancers and found that the general public did not meet recommended screening requirements for cancers. they say there are confusions to the recommendations and fewer americans are insured, which could lead to a decrease in screening. you've heard of 3-d ultrasounds but what about 3-d mammograms? the veterans affairs maryland healthcare system is the first in the state to make this available. dr. elliott steagall is here to tell us about it. what are 3-d mammograms? >> it's a technology that's re
. >> former senator george mcgovern who lost in a record landslide to richard nixon in the 1972 presidential election died, and hawaiian senator daniel inouye who served in the senate and the army in world war ii because as a japanese american he thought it his only way to prove his loyalty to america. >> and just in the last week, jack klugman and charles durning. you've heard of 3-d ultrasound, and now there's 3-d mammogr >> in this morning's medical alert, a new study finds...
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this is what the world looked like when you enter into the white house with richard nixon. the united states has had no relations with china. we have been implacably opposed to this regime. we fought against them, american soldiers died in the korean war fighting the chinese, we fought them indirectly in vietnam. we recognized taiwan as the republic of china, and you come into office and within three years you open relations to china, agree to withdraw american troops from taiwan. what made you make that decision? >> the conviction was that a country of the magnitude of china could not be kept out of the international system indefinitely and would distort the international system. also, we thought if the soviet union, which had just occupied czechoslovakia could now do the same to china, that would change the psychological and strategic position in the world. >> and it was here in the growing wedge between the two communist powers that nixon and kissinger saw an opening. they would lean toward china. trouble was how to contact a regime whose very existence the united states
this is what the world looked like when you enter into the white house with richard nixon. the united states has had no relations with china. we have been implacably opposed to this regime. we fought against them, american soldiers died in the korean war fighting the chinese, we fought them indirectly in vietnam. we recognized taiwan as the republic of china, and you come into office and within three years you open relations to china, agree to withdraw american troops from taiwan. what made you...
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as a traitor. >> when nixon did it, do you
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particularly on the american right, taiwan is the true china and now richard nixon has
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nixon still remembered that. one of the early dirty tricks of the nixon white house was finding a way to get rid of ray. nixon's housing secretary was george romney whose son has been in the news lately. mitt romney's dad complained ray was not being cooperative. he felt he could run fannie mae any way he saw fit. there was also talk that ray might have used fannie mae posted your letter head to raise money for democratic candidates and the white house was getting complaints from republican lawyers in south carolina that democratic lawyers were getting all the fannie mae work related to foreclosures, all the fees. in nine months of taking office nixon hired him -- fired him without giving any public explanation. lapin resisted, said that nixon was turning fannie mae and to what he called a patronage putting. lapin tried to get a restraining order from a federal judge. the judge wouldn't budge. beret kept showing up for work anyway. at one point of the lights went out at fannie may's offices and the phone lines we
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and nixon his without a doubt one of the most controversial and influential filmmakers of our time and that's why i'm very pleased to be joined by producer director oliver stone thank you so much for joining me for having me it's nice to great pleasure so wall street is a film that challenge people to rethink human nature one of the most notable lines from the movie greed is good what was your original message about that line and how do you feel looking back twenty five years later at the relationship between wall street and our government. don't get me started you know of my father was in wall street so i grew up republican conservative in new york city and my life and underwent a lot of changes and by the time i was thirty five forty years old i was rethinking everything and i had a chance to go back and visits my dad's world of wall street from that i knew from the fifty's and sixty's but it completely changed in the eighty's and there was a new breed of banker investment trader shark that had come into the pool and was devouring some of the smaller fish the emphasis being on money
and nixon his without a doubt one of the most controversial and influential filmmakers of our time and that's why i'm very pleased to be joined by producer director oliver stone thank you so much for joining me for having me it's nice to great pleasure so wall street is a film that challenge people to rethink human nature one of the most notable lines from the movie greed is good what was your original message about that line and how do you feel looking back twenty five years later at the...
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so i got that sense from nixon. practical back to your book on 1775, how did you pursue it > how did your research and where did you have to go? how long a process? you talk about going all over the east coast, on the back. correct the principal thing i did was i had been interested in the revolution since i was a kid. i think i was probably eight or nine when i would make list set of british generals. my father was not sure i was headed for anything useful. but i always enjoyed that. then when i did "the cousins wars," focus me in a big way on the american publishing. my way of writing books is generally to buy all the books i need for the research so i don't have to go to a library, i don't have to worry about where they are. i have them. i can look at them whenever i want to. 600, 800,ve wound up 1000 books on the revolution. i read and read and i would get a lead for something else. with all the stuff i did on politics and political realignments and grass-roots politics, i knoew where a lot of counties were in t
so i got that sense from nixon. practical back to your book on 1775, how did you pursue it > how did your research and where did you have to go? how long a process? you talk about going all over the east coast, on the back. correct the principal thing i did was i had been interested in the revolution since i was a kid. i think i was probably eight or nine when i would make list set of british generals. my father was not sure i was headed for anything useful. but i always enjoyed that. then...
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if it was a ballet of frost nixon, is it a valuable argument to say frost never sached around nixon? it's not a documentary. so it's more about -- i think an audience response on a whole as to the complexity of something. the's a balancing act of facts. i watched "argo" the other day and one of the things i was unclear about was the most exciting part of it was something that didn't actually happen. it's an interesting question to talk about it how much can an entertainment rely on things that didn't happen if it is supposed to be based on real events. that is something that with each piece i've been involved with you have to judge along the way. >> talk about your new piece. >> i will be working on a piece about masters and johnson which is about real people and real events. >> a piece about mouse and johnson which has not been done. these conventions of how popular entertainment gets made. we do historical pieces but real 20th century figures, they are done in movies, but not done in series so of course a series over the course of however many episodes we end up making we'll take g
if it was a ballet of frost nixon, is it a valuable argument to say frost never sached around nixon? it's not a documentary. so it's more about -- i think an audience response on a whole as to the complexity of something. the's a balancing act of facts. i watched "argo" the other day and one of the things i was unclear about was the most exciting part of it was something that didn't actually happen. it's an interesting question to talk about it how much can an entertainment rely on...
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. >> what did you think of richard nixon when you worked with him? >> i liked him better after i wasn't working with him and he was out of the presidency. he is a very intelligent man, a man with the enormous personal problems in terms of relating to people. and i understand much better, which i did not a time when i worked for him, how he was not an effective administrator and how he couldn't keep all those worms in the can, whether you are talking about the administration or special watergate pierre >> had been to keep up with him after the years that he was president? >> he read one of my books from the early 1980's that feel like. somehow, we started having correspondence again. i would see him max for times of year. his office was up in new york and then in saddle river, new jersey. so when i would go from washington to our house in connecticut or sometimes i would stop and see him. and we would discuss politics and some of the things that had not been the school -- had not been discussedable before. >> did you ever get in setting to watergate a
. >> what did you think of richard nixon when you worked with him? >> i liked him better after i wasn't working with him and he was out of the presidency. he is a very intelligent man, a man with the enormous personal problems in terms of relating to people. and i understand much better, which i did not a time when i worked for him, how he was not an effective administrator and how he couldn't keep all those worms in the can, whether you are talking about the administration or...
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people who say that you were too forgiving of bush and your movie w but i don't see that in nixon that the cia director tried to kill dick said we would that we hinted at there was a controversy between helms richard helms and nixon and part of the problems was the cuban papers and what you are it's a dirty story the cia was we nicknamed sometimes capitalisms invisible army goes back to one thousand nine hundred. and the cia has misused its mandate for so long and still is in the in with a drone it's now and it's targeted assassinations it's essentially i've always regarded the cia as a criminal organization of sort like a mafia operating inside the us government scaring presidents because they have separated from it they've lost the pentagon is taking over a lot of the old cia. special operations command has become almost an equivalent to the cia invisible army. for me and personally as a documentary that we use we get to an untold history. junior. everything that could go wrong could go wrong after two things but the two of two thousand and eleven was missed. the movie that you made
people who say that you were too forgiving of bush and your movie w but i don't see that in nixon that the cia director tried to kill dick said we would that we hinted at there was a controversy between helms richard helms and nixon and part of the problems was the cuban papers and what you are it's a dirty story the cia was we nicknamed sometimes capitalisms invisible army goes back to one thousand nine hundred. and the cia has misused its mandate for so long and still is in the in with a...
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, nixon's taller than him. and then you see the picture, they are there down in florida in the electionn '60 and he's taller than nixon. it's so strange. he just got healthier and nixon. and poor nixon is watching this guy grow next to him and i don't think he can believe what happened to this guy. >> was he a great president as far as what he accomplished? >> he had three years before he was killed. and if you go in terms of inspirati inspiration, did he lead people into politics, i would put him in the same category as hemingway. think about hemingway and the way he lived and he made all of us want to be writers. all of us wanted to be writers because of hemingway. he is the american writer. and that power of leadership is what kennedy had. he had made all of us growing up in that generation, everybody since, want to get into politics. before jack kennedy went into pl politics, it was stiff guys with three-piece suits, bob taft, nixon, guys that were really boring and who wanted to be one of them? and kennedy
, nixon's taller than him. and then you see the picture, they are there down in florida in the electionn '60 and he's taller than nixon. it's so strange. he just got healthier and nixon. and poor nixon is watching this guy grow next to him and i don't think he can believe what happened to this guy. >> was he a great president as far as what he accomplished? >> he had three years before he was killed. and if you go in terms of inspirati inspiration, did he lead people into politics,...
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if it was a ballet of frost nixon, is it a valuable argument to say frost never sached around nixon? it's not a documentary. so it's more about -- i think an audience response on a whole as to the complexity of something. that's a balancing act of the facts. i watched "argo" the other day and one of the things i was unclear about was the most exciting part of it was something that didn't actually happen. it's an interesting question to talk about it how much can an entertainment rely on things that didn't happen if it is supposed to be based on real events. that is something that with each piece i've been involved with you have to judge along the way. >> talk about your new piece. >> i will be working on a piece about masters and johnson which is about real people and real events. >> a piece about mouse and johnson which has not been done. -- about masters and johnson which, weirdly i think, has not been done. these conventions of how popular entertainment gets made. we do historical pieces but real 20th century figures, they are done in movies, but not done in series so of course a
if it was a ballet of frost nixon, is it a valuable argument to say frost never sached around nixon? it's not a documentary. so it's more about -- i think an audience response on a whole as to the complexity of something. that's a balancing act of the facts. i watched "argo" the other day and one of the things i was unclear about was the most exciting part of it was something that didn't actually happen. it's an interesting question to talk about it how much can an entertainment rely...
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it was the beginning of the nixone n\ where the l.a. police chief blamed the turmoil on those people, meaning democrats, too much too soon and they told black people about racism and they were being mistreated rather than they were being mistreated. in some of my research i found the lyndon johnson right afterwards said i have done more for these people than any other president, how could they be doing this to me? there was a sense of awe cause and effected between beginning to reckon with allegis the -- legacy of slavery and the unrest that followed. i write a lot about race in my book but when i look backpacking actually the war had more to do with parts of the country than race and those of us who were anti-war were on the right side but we became judge by a violent fringe -- i don't want to say with good reason but we can talk about, it was a bad war. i didn't mean all americans were bad people but democrats got associated with a critique of the country that was both fair but probably went too far. what i fear when we talk about a g
it was the beginning of the nixone n\ where the l.a. police chief blamed the turmoil on those people, meaning democrats, too much too soon and they told black people about racism and they were being mistreated rather than they were being mistreated. in some of my research i found the lyndon johnson right afterwards said i have done more for these people than any other president, how could they be doing this to me? there was a sense of awe cause and effected between beginning to reckon with...
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nixon is out before he resigned before the second midterm shallacking. you can see in that midterm in 1950, democratic party lost 28 seats in the house and 6 in the senate. in ike's second term, the democrats wiped out. 48 and 13 seats. reagan, 1986, eight and five seats. not so bad. more about that in a minute and did cost the republicans control of the senate in the process. president clinton is the big outlier here if you will recall. because he didn't lose anything in the second midterm. winning five house seats for the party. staying even in the senate and then president bush was hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, 6 in the senate and more importantly control of the both houses were gone from the republicans. a couple things to note here. the 1998 election, of course, under president clinton marked the only time a sitting two-term president saw gains in the second midterm in the modern era. in addition, two-term presidents typically have a bad midterm and one not so bad. truman's party was much worse in '46 than it was in '50. reagan s
nixon is out before he resigned before the second midterm shallacking. you can see in that midterm in 1950, democratic party lost 28 seats in the house and 6 in the senate. in ike's second term, the democrats wiped out. 48 and 13 seats. reagan, 1986, eight and five seats. not so bad. more about that in a minute and did cost the republicans control of the senate in the process. president clinton is the big outlier here if you will recall. because he didn't lose anything in the second midterm....
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governor jay nixon nixon is a democratic governor dealing with a republican controlled state legislature and as such yes i deal with really bad ideas fairly often the latest being a proposal by republican state legislators to allow teachers in missouri to carry handguns and to schools on monday governor nixon flat out rejected the idea saying quote i have serious concerns about recently introduced legislation that proposes not only to arm teachers but to do so by taking away the authority of local school districts to keep guns out of classrooms this legislation would put our children at risk and limit the ability of local school districts to keep their schools safe and close now recognizing someone for saying arming teachers is a bad idea maybe setting the bar low for good behavior but considering that republican governors like rick perry in texas and bob mcdonnell in virginia support doing exactly that arming teachers and we should give props to a sane governor in a nation increasingly being taken over by insane governors. now the bat dick armey according to a new report by the washingt
governor jay nixon nixon is a democratic governor dealing with a republican controlled state legislature and as such yes i deal with really bad ideas fairly often the latest being a proposal by republican state legislators to allow teachers in missouri to carry handguns and to schools on monday governor nixon flat out rejected the idea saying quote i have serious concerns about recently introduced legislation that proposes not only to arm teachers but to do so by taking away the authority of...
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richard nixon has. >> when richard nixon did it, do you think he felt he would manage to calm the right down or a price he was willing to pay? >> it was a price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you, of course, in '72, the week that he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world. >> he was right. >> well, those were some of the tough decisions we wanted to analyze. do you agree with the choices these people made? what are the toughest decisions you have made? join in the conversation online #toughdecisions on twitter. we'll highlight the most interesting ones on our website. thank you for joining us tonight. we hope your decision to watch our show was not a tough one. >>> it's extremely unlikely in my estimation that david gregory is going to jail. but the "meet the press" moderator is under investigation for wielding this particular prop during an interview with the head of the nra. >> so, here is a magazine for ammunition that carries 30 bullets. now, isn't it possible that if we got rid
richard nixon has. >> when richard nixon did it, do you think he felt he would manage to calm the right down or a price he was willing to pay? >> it was a price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you, of course, in '72, the week that he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world. >> he was right. >> well, those were some of the tough decisions we wanted to...
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that is until president nixon made infamous. [applause] of the presidential recording systems were revealed. against the backdrop of watergate, taping can seem problematic. but it is a unique and invaluable resource. on these tapes, history unfolds real-time in the most dramatic possible way. here are the confrontations of the civil rights movement and the life decisions being made during the cuban missile crisis. people often ask me why my fatherfather install the systems. as a lover of history, i know he would've been talk of this new technology as a way of keeping an accurate record of events for the memoir he planned to write after leaving office. after the bay of pigs, people say he wanted to be able to remember who said what in case they later changed their tune. [laughter] the wonderful thing about this book is that although much of this material has been available, it has not been easily acceptable until now. the original recordings of of varying quality, and it is not always clear who is speaking in meetings. working wi
that is until president nixon made infamous. [applause] of the presidential recording systems were revealed. against the backdrop of watergate, taping can seem problematic. but it is a unique and invaluable resource. on these tapes, history unfolds real-time in the most dramatic possible way. here are the confrontations of the civil rights movement and the life decisions being made during the cuban missile crisis. people often ask me why my fatherfather install the systems. as a lover of...
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yes, richard nixon said that in '72. after a string of legislative successes in his first term and after narrowly winning a second term as president, president bush claimed a mandate. >> when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view. and that's what i intend to tell the congress. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it he did. just 16 months later, bush made this stark admission to the press corps. >> just after the 2004 election, you seemed have claimed an en enviable balance of the capital. would you make that claim today? >> i would say i'm spending that capital on the war. >> not only did plummeting support for the war erode bush's second term, but he also overreached with the social security privatization push. his reform then collapsed under the weight of the other issues. they bungled the response to hurricane katrina and relations with congress soured to the point that when bush nominated harriet miers to the cou
yes, richard nixon said that in '72. after a string of legislative successes in his first term and after narrowly winning a second term as president, president bush claimed a mandate. >> when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view. and that's what i intend to tell the congress. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it he did. just 16 months later, bush made this stark admission to...
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yes, richard nixon said that in 1972. after a string of legislative successes in his first term and after narrowly winning a second term as president, president bush claimed a mandate. >> when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that's what i intend to tell the congress. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it, he did. just 16 months later bush made this stark admission to the press corps. >> just after the 2004 election, you seemed -- you have claimed an enviable balance of political capital and a strong mandate. would you make that claim today? do you still have that? >> i would say i'm spending that capital on the war. >> not only did plummeting support for the iraq war erode bush's ability to drive his second term agenda, but he aels overreached with the social security privatization push. his efforts on immigration reform then collapsed under the weight of the other issues. the administration bungled the re
yes, richard nixon said that in 1972. after a string of legislative successes in his first term and after narrowly winning a second term as president, president bush claimed a mandate. >> when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that's what i intend to tell the congress. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it, he did. just 16 months later bush made this stark admission to...
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but most of all, nixon and kissinger were in the republican party. [laughter] and he felt that he needed to combat them, and he felt that this was the most corrupt administration that he had ever seen. he wanted no part of it. and, indeed, henry kissinger became the focal point of the 1976 -- he ran against henry kissinger, but harry byrd had the money and the name recognition, he had every highway and school named after him. he took a shellacking in that election. but it was a learning experience for him. another remarkable story i think i tell is, and this pops up throughout the book, is the relationship that bud zumwalt had with tran van chan, remarkable friendship and the love he had for the vietnamese. and how he never stopped supporting the vietnamese ever. and in 1975, april 30, 1975, when the country of south vietnam ceased to exist and as many vietnamese fled by boat or -- by boat or any way they could, and they needed to get a sponsor here in the united states, sometimes the only name they knew was bud zumwalt. and the zumwalt home and the
but most of all, nixon and kissinger were in the republican party. [laughter] and he felt that he needed to combat them, and he felt that this was the most corrupt administration that he had ever seen. he wanted no part of it. and, indeed, henry kissinger became the focal point of the 1976 -- he ran against henry kissinger, but harry byrd had the money and the name recognition, he had every highway and school named after him. he took a shellacking in that election. but it was a learning...
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yes, richard nixon said that in '72. after a string of legislative successes in his first term, president bush claimed a mandate. >> there is a feeling that people have spoken and see your point of view. i have earned political capital and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it he did. just 16 months later, bush made this stark admission to the press corps. >> just after the 2004 e lexz, you seemed to claim an enviable balance. >> i say i'm spending that capital on the war. >> not only did plum etting support with the second term agenda, but he also overreached with the social security privatization and then collapsed under the wait of the under issues. the administration bungled the response for hurricane katrina to the point that when bush nominated har yet myers, republicans didn't fall in line. many privately and publicly called and forced to withdraw her nomination. bush's approval rating had dropped to a miserable 47%. it's a real question whether president obama will be able to forge a closer-working relationship w
yes, richard nixon said that in '72. after a string of legislative successes in his first term, president bush claimed a mandate. >> there is a feeling that people have spoken and see your point of view. i have earned political capital and now i intend to spend it. >> spend it he did. just 16 months later, bush made this stark admission to the press corps. >> just after the 2004 e lexz, you seemed to claim an enviable balance. >> i say i'm spending that capital on the...
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taiwan as the true china, and now richard nixon as a traitor. >> when nixon did it, do you think he felt that he would manage to calm the right down? or was it a price he was willing to play? >> it was the price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you, of course, in '72, the week that he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world? >> he was right. >> well, those were some of the tough decisions we wanted to analyze. do you agree with the choices these people made? what are the toughest decisions you have made? join in the conversation online. #toughdecisions on twitter or cnn.com/fareed. we'll highlight the most interesting ones on our website. thank you for joining us tonight. we hope your decision to watch our show was not a tough one. >>> tonight, the one and only barbra streisand. ♪ and the way we were >> extraordinary hour. the legendary superstar. >> those men are fighting for your right to make any kind of picture you want. >> her incredible career. >> i only began to sing because i
taiwan as the true china, and now richard nixon as a traitor. >> when nixon did it, do you think he felt that he would manage to calm the right down? or was it a price he was willing to play? >> it was the price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you, of course, in '72, the week that he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world? >> he was right. >> well, those...
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byrd certainly helps drive nixon out of office. when you cross a constitutional line, byrd goes after you. it did not matter whether he liked you or not. he will go after you if you cross that line. one of the greatest statements came from president clinton -- the memorial service for byrd in west virginia, this is where clinton said there is nothing he would not have done for you, meaning the people of west virginia as long as you did not cross the constitutional line. a powerful statement. clinton picked up on robert byrd perfectly. one of the administration i talked about is the carter administration. workyou look at byrd's with president carter, you realize how much legislation is accomplished in those congresses. incredible. carter's failures are basically external. oil and cargo driving up inflation are beyond carter's control. -- oil embargo driving up inflation. three-mile island. but what carter and byrd did -- carter was a difficult person, but they were able to bring together. they got an enormous and our legislation ena
byrd certainly helps drive nixon out of office. when you cross a constitutional line, byrd goes after you. it did not matter whether he liked you or not. he will go after you if you cross that line. one of the greatest statements came from president clinton -- the memorial service for byrd in west virginia, this is where clinton said there is nothing he would not have done for you, meaning the people of west virginia as long as you did not cross the constitutional line. a powerful statement....
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>> when nixon did it, do you think he felt that he would manage to calm the right down? or it was a price he was willing to pay? >> it was a price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you of course in '72, the week he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world. >> he was right. >> well those were some of the tough decisions we wanted to analyze. do you agree with the choices these people made? what are the toughest decisions you have made? join in the conversation online. #toughdecisions on twitter. we'll highlight the most interesting ones on our website. thank you for joining us tonight. we hope your decision to watch our show was not a tough one. >> you are in the cnn news room, i'm martin savidge, in this weekend for fredricka witfield. this hour and throughout the day we're following breaking developments on a story that affects every single american. yes i'm talking about the fiscal cliff. hello, good to be with you. we are just two days now remaining that is, until the
>> when nixon did it, do you think he felt that he would manage to calm the right down? or it was a price he was willing to pay? >> it was a price he was willing to pay. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> richard nixon said when he went to china with you of course in '72, the week he was there, he said this is the week that changed the world. >> he was right. >> well those were some of the tough decisions we wanted to analyze. do you agree with...
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republican you know before nixon went nuts and. but. that era i mean you go back and read i'm sure you're familiar with the. one hundred fifty four letter to his brother about social security yes yeah and the small number of people within the party you know. who's where small in number and stupid. that republican party actually supported in ninety one percent top income tax rate it supported the idea that corporations paid about thirty percent of the total cost of running the federal government which is now down to around eleven percent. my sense of it is and i i was very involved in this i mean i i went with my dad sort of i was thirteen years old i went door to door for barry goldwater in sixty or so and i read you know john stormers none dare call it treason and i was looking out for the commies under the bed but my sense of it is that the republicans of that day if they looked at today at the rise of essentially oligarchy in the united states you know a handful who talk received yeah that's a perfect word a handful of billionai
republican you know before nixon went nuts and. but. that era i mean you go back and read i'm sure you're familiar with the. one hundred fifty four letter to his brother about social security yes yeah and the small number of people within the party you know. who's where small in number and stupid. that republican party actually supported in ninety one percent top income tax rate it supported the idea that corporations paid about thirty percent of the total cost of running the federal government...
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richard nixon during watergate in 1984, 24% approval. also very popular. banks that had just crashed the global financial system and were throwing tens of millions of people out of work worldwide, 23% approval, not good. paris hilton, 15% approval. the u.s. becoming a communist country, which had apparently been polled by rasmussen got 11% approval, oddly. and then there was congress. 9%. 9% approval rating. that is not good, people. that was in 2011. now, according to gallup, congress is up to 18%. that is still awful. and even the people who serve in congress don't like congress, they hate congress. they are embarrassed by it. just listen to them. >> we have lacked the courage to face up, to deal with these issues. we here in washington are going to hurt the american economy. we're going to hurt americans at every level, and to me, it's just a travesty that we've not been willing to deal with this issue. >> americans believe congress is broken. the american people know, democrats and republicans, that this place isn't working and there need to be some ch
richard nixon during watergate in 1984, 24% approval. also very popular. banks that had just crashed the global financial system and were throwing tens of millions of people out of work worldwide, 23% approval, not good. paris hilton, 15% approval. the u.s. becoming a communist country, which had apparently been polled by rasmussen got 11% approval, oddly. and then there was congress. 9%. 9% approval rating. that is not good, people. that was in 2011. now, according to gallup, congress is up to...
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richard nixon during watergate in 1984, 24% approval. also very popular. banks that had just crashed the global financial system and were throwing tens of millions of people out of work worldwide, 23% approval, not good. paris hilton, 15% approval. the u.s. becoming a communist country, which had apparently been polled by rasmussen got 11% approval, oddly. and then there was congress. 9%. 9% approval rating. that is not good, people. that was in 2011. now, according to gallup, congress is up to 18%. that is still awful. and even the people who serve in congress don't like congress, they hate congress. they are embarrassed by it. just listen to them. >> we have lacked the courage to face up, to deal with these issues. we here in washington are going to hurt the american economy. we're going to hurt americans at every level, and to me, it's just a travesty that we've not been willing to deal with this issue. >> americans believe congress is broken. the american people know, democrats and republicans, that this place isn't working and there need to be some ch
richard nixon during watergate in 1984, 24% approval. also very popular. banks that had just crashed the global financial system and were throwing tens of millions of people out of work worldwide, 23% approval, not good. paris hilton, 15% approval. the u.s. becoming a communist country, which had apparently been polled by rasmussen got 11% approval, oddly. and then there was congress. 9%. 9% approval rating. that is not good, people. that was in 2011. now, according to gallup, congress is up to...
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ford being sworn in in the white house in 1974 after richard nixon resigned in disgrace and here is a picture and it's my final story for the day this story actually inspired me probably more than any other to write this book. this is calvin coolidge in 1923 who became president after the death of warren harding. at the time of harding's def, coolidge was staying with his father is a very small cottage in vermont, a place that had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, no internet, they didn't have any of those things. so a courier came by to present the news that harding had died. and then everybody wanted coolidge to be sworn in as soon as possible. so the question was who would do it, who would swear in the president? the answer turned out to be his own father. his own father, john coolidge was a local justice of the peace and a notary in public. and so by the light of an old kerosene lamp at 2:47 in the morning on august 3rd, 1923, john coolidge swore in his son mcalpin as the new president. so, that's pretty much it. hopefully this all helps you when you view the inaugur
ford being sworn in in the white house in 1974 after richard nixon resigned in disgrace and here is a picture and it's my final story for the day this story actually inspired me probably more than any other to write this book. this is calvin coolidge in 1923 who became president after the death of warren harding. at the time of harding's def, coolidge was staying with his father is a very small cottage in vermont, a place that had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, no internet,...
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they were replaced by richard nixon with chief justice warren burger. blackmun, and william rehnquist. as a think about that list, has a very important part of the oath. but it is american politics over the past generation. and that is the evolution of the republican party. it is the most important story in american politics. it is the most important story in the supreme court. because moderate republicans dominated the supreme court moderate republicans are gone and the supreme court and the united states congress, our i inspector is fighting for his life now, i had the privilege of covering senator specter who is a great character. often during his tenure in the senate, he left the republican party literally. if you look at nixon's appointments of the supreme court, in the 1970s, a lot of people thought that the court would woo weight to the right because nixon had these appointments. the 70s was almost as liberal as the 60s. the big cases had to do with nixon. they ended the death penalty in 1972. they let back in 1976. still, the most controversial
they were replaced by richard nixon with chief justice warren burger. blackmun, and william rehnquist. as a think about that list, has a very important part of the oath. but it is american politics over the past generation. and that is the evolution of the republican party. it is the most important story in american politics. it is the most important story in the supreme court. because moderate republicans dominated the supreme court moderate republicans are gone and the supreme court and the...
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was saying president nixon is going to resign. you did not have the news media like today so it was very different. we had news media waiting in our front yard for something to happen. so, it was one of those things that dad did not say something until the very last minute. yes, we are going to the white house and we need to pick out clothes. [laughter] >> not a conversation most people can relate to. [laughter] what was that conversation like when he called you together? >> because my father and president nixon had been longtime friends, one of the first people who spoke to my dad when he became a congressman was nixon who was also in the house. there was a long relationship between the two families. when dad did tell us, it was one of those things of this is going to happen. it is very sad. we know the family. it was more a matter of being upset for what our country was getting ready to experience. and how sad that this had to happen to the united states. because my dad h ad 25 years in the congress. this was a very sad moment f
was saying president nixon is going to resign. you did not have the news media like today so it was very different. we had news media waiting in our front yard for something to happen. so, it was one of those things that dad did not say something until the very last minute. yes, we are going to the white house and we need to pick out clothes. [laughter] >> not a conversation most people can relate to. [laughter] what was that conversation like when he called you together? >> because...
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the stories about bootlegging to begin until the 1970s when nixon runs against jfk in 1960, nixon brings out researchers. he hires researchers all over the country to find every bit of dirt they can about the kennedy family. they find plenty of dirt about kennedy, but no one accuses him of being a bootlegger. it's only in the 1970s when writers are trying to figure out the assassination and the figure can't be also. it's got to be the mafia. by what the mafia co. after jfk and these explanations are put together and all sorts of retired mafia. and israel, in europe, in the bahamas they'll come out when asked out when asked and say joe kennedy was a good friend of mind. we did a lot of work. and writers with a good story wouldn't let it go. i booty instead, trying to track down every rumor, every story. and you know, the credible witnesses include all components pni tuner, who gives an interview in which he says he was tuning a piano when alan kennedy met together. they include the ex-wife of a chicago mobster who says yeah, my husband was a good friend of joe kennedy. they included the p
the stories about bootlegging to begin until the 1970s when nixon runs against jfk in 1960, nixon brings out researchers. he hires researchers all over the country to find every bit of dirt they can about the kennedy family. they find plenty of dirt about kennedy, but no one accuses him of being a bootlegger. it's only in the 1970s when writers are trying to figure out the assassination and the figure can't be also. it's got to be the mafia. by what the mafia co. after jfk and these...
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and when president nixon went into office the soviets were not about to get their first. the next leg of the space race was a series of sprints. >> we launched a saturn 5 every two months, a remarkable achievement. >> each mission got thebl astronauts a little closer to their ultimate goal. apolo 9 launching march 1st and they were the first to test the lunar module in space. apolo 10 launching may 18th, 1969 with stafford, young and sunik and flew within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface. that would be a dress rehearsal for the apolo 11, demanded by neil armstrong. >> what will your plans be in the extremely unlikely event that the lunar module does not come offff the lunar surface. >> well it is an unpolicent sent -- unpleasant thing to think about and we choose not to think that at the present time. >> they would walk on the moon with arm stropping. >> there is a lot of gossip back and forth, buzz, about how it ended up neil armstrong was the first man. there was hope you were supposed towe be, right? >> there was an uncertainty. every eva was done by the junior person.
and when president nixon went into office the soviets were not about to get their first. the next leg of the space race was a series of sprints. >> we launched a saturn 5 every two months, a remarkable achievement. >> each mission got thebl astronauts a little closer to their ultimate goal. apolo 9 launching march 1st and they were the first to test the lunar module in space. apolo 10 launching may 18th, 1969 with stafford, young and sunik and flew within 50,000 feet of the lunar...
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nixon did not have a great walker. if you have seen those depictions of the evolution of man --\[laughter] coming from the primordial ooze and slowly walking on all fours and then finally ending on the extreme with cro-magnon man walking along, analyzing everything. nixon's walk was a couple of characters back from that guy. they did not want to focus on it. so they lined up all of the employees and he went down the line like a receiving line, saying goodbye to all of them. it was quite moving, saying hello and goodbye for the first and last time. and then at the end of the line he was on the helicopter and out of there. this next song is a more political song, "slap weather." the first verses about ronald reagan and leaving office. if i am not mistaken, it was my impression that one of the first things he did after leaving office was except a speaking engagement in japan for $2 million. is that right? for some reason, that took me back. today it would just go off my back like nothing had happened. what is more natural
nixon did not have a great walker. if you have seen those depictions of the evolution of man --\[laughter] coming from the primordial ooze and slowly walking on all fours and then finally ending on the extreme with cro-magnon man walking along, analyzing everything. nixon's walk was a couple of characters back from that guy. they did not want to focus on it. so they lined up all of the employees and he went down the line like a receiving line, saying goodbye to all of them. it was quite moving,...
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. >> get at list one book on nixon done this year. >> another one? >> one. >> can get cracking on my memoir, and also continue to jog so i can continue to stay healthy and continue to do combat. >> ensure that everything i put on twitter is completely accurate. >> are you going to do a memoir? >> no. >> really? >> write a book that responds to pat buchanan's last book. >> my new year's resolution is to not have such a heavy foot when i accelerate vehicles. we try to give it to you straight. celebrate the new year. bye bye. ♪ [ music ]
. >> get at list one book on nixon done this year. >> another one? >> one. >> can get cracking on my memoir, and also continue to jog so i can continue to stay healthy and continue to do combat. >> ensure that everything i put on twitter is completely accurate. >> are you going to do a memoir? >> no. >> really? >> write a book that responds to pat buchanan's last book. >> my new year's resolution is to not have such a heavy foot when i...